Big thanks to Target® for sponsoring today’s post through their partnership with POPSUGAR Select. Everyone wants to know the secret to ___________. You fill in the blank: Losing weight. Maintaining a healthy weight. Running faster. Running your first 5K. Qualifying for the Boston Marathon. Eating better. Cooking more. Getting stronger. Finding balance. Does any of this […] Read more
For the first time in a long time, I’m a raceless runner. I haven’t signed up for any races. I don’t have any races on my 2015 calendar. Of course, I’ll run some races, but I’m not currently training for a goal race. In some ways, that feels uncomfortable and unnerving. On the other hand, […] Read more
For as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving Day has always started with a workout. Typically, a run. My earliest memories of running and racing are all from Thanksgiving Day. My family and I would run a 5K/10K Turkey Trot in Florida. It ended on a high school track, and we’d sit in the stands […] Read more
There is a commonly held running philosophy called the principle of specificity which suggests that to become a better runner, we have to run more. For some runners, increasing mileage and intensity can result in running injuries that take weeks and months to recover from. But we can take steps to safely increase our mileage […] Read more
“You are stronger than you think.” That’s the mantra I always tell myself when a training run or race gets really tough. Our mind, our legs, our lungs, our heart, our soul – they all have to be strong to transcend the expectations and limits we set for ourselves. I’ve been thinking a lot lately […] Read more